Women in St. Augustine and St. Johns County voted for a U.S. president for the first time in 1920. Local women joined females across the United States as first-time voters after the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was added earlier that year. That amendment prohibited sex-based restrictions on voting. Women were already voting in a few western states before the adoption of the 19th amendment. (In 1971, the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age nationwide to 18 years old.)